WELLVALE FD140

Courtesy of Fleetwood Maritime Heritage Trust and The Bosun's Watch

Official No:  148227   Port and Year:  Fleetwood, 1926

Description: Canadian Castle Class steel side trawler, steam, coal fired, single screw. Ketch rigged.

Crew:

Built: Canadian Vickers Ltd, Montreal, Canada; in 1918. (Yard no. 60)

Tonnage: 271  grt  124 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 125.7 / 23.5 / 12.7

Engine: T.3-Cyl., 62 rhp.; by builders.

Owners:   As WELLVALE FD140 22 Sep 1926: Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co. Ltd., Grimsby. Manager: Basil A. Parkes, 'Wellvale', Warbreck Hill Rd., Blackpool.   20 May 1927: Arthur S. Bowlby, Gilston Park, Harlow, Essex. Manager: Edward D. W. Lawford, c/o Iago Steam Trawler Co. Ltd., The Docks, Milford.   8 Nov 1932: Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co. Ltd., Dock St., Fleetwood Manager: Basil A. Parkes, 'Wellvale', Warbreck Hill Rd., Blackpool.

Landed at Milford: 1 Feb 1928 - 4 Mar 1930

Skippers:

Notes: May 1918: Completed as minesweeper TR 28 for the RCN. 31 Jan 1919: Paid off and laid up pending sale to mercantile. 5-6 Jul 1933: Chartered for by Italian Government to provide support for a trans Atlantic flight involving 20 to 30 aeroplanes. 26 Sep 1939: Missing, presumed lost by enemy action off the Hebrides (U-35 being in the vicinity).  Skipper and twelve crew lost.  30 Sep 1939: Reported to be four days overdue, having been at sea for 17 days. [The Times, Saturday, 30th September 1939.]   [Information supplied by the Fleetwood Maritime Heritage Trust, and the Bosun's Watch website.]

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